HTML Progresses with Eight Drafts; Two New Working Drafts

HTML Progresses with Eight Drafts; Two New <http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8843>

25 June 2010
The HTML Working Group<http://www.w3.org/html/wg/> published eight documents:
*         Updated Working Drafts of the HTML5 specification<http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html5-20100624/>, the accompanying explanatory document HTML5 differences from HTML4<http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html5-diff-20100624/>, and the related non-normative reference HTML: The Markup Language<http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html-markup-20100624/>.
*         Updated Working Drafts of the specifications HTML+RDFa 1.1<http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-rdfa-in-html-20100624/> and HTML Microdata<http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-microdata-20100624/>, which define mechanisms for embedding machine-readable data in HTML documents, and the specification HTML Canvas 2D Context<http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-2dcontext-20100624/>, which defines a 2D immediate-mode graphics API for use with the HTML5 <canvas> element.
*         New! HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives<http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html-alt-techniques-20100624/>, a First Public Working Draft which is intended to help authors provide useful text alternatives for images in HTML documents.
*         New! Polyglot Markup: HTML-Compatible XHTML Documents<http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html-polyglot-20100624/>, a First Public Working Draft which is intended to help authors produce XHTML documents that are also compatible with non-XML HTML syntax and parsing rules.
Learn more about HTML5<http://www.w3.org/html/>.
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